Bannow (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Bannow Former constituency
Created	()
Post-Union	Disenfranchised
Type	Irish House of Commons

Bannow was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.

Boundaries and Boundary Changes

This constituency was the borough of Bannow in County Wexford.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Bannow was represented with two members. Following the Act of Union 1800 the borough was disenfranchised.

Members of Parliament

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Francis Plowden			Alexius Stafford
1692		Nathaniel Boyse			John Cliffe
1715		James Boyse
1725		Samuel Boyse
1727					George Ogle
1730		William Harrison
1737		Nicholas Hume-Loftus
1747					Hon. Henry Loftus
1761		Henry Mitchell
1768		Charles Tottenham			Robert Hellen
1776		Henry Loftus			Nicholas Loftus Tottenham
1790		Ponsonby Tottenham			Ephraim Carroll
1798		William Loftus
1799					Robert Shaw
February 1800					Joseph McClean
March 1800		Thomas Prior
1801		Disenfranchised

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0788419277. 
• Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons
• Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800., Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 Feb 2002), ISBN 1-903688-09-4
• T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534-1691, Oxford University Press, 1978
• Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons